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Please for the love of god go into this blind without knowing about it, it enhances the experience 1000%. I believe Gakkou Gurashi (School-Live!) is one of the best anime I have seen in my Weeaboo career. Without spoilers School-Live! is an amazing anime filled with twists and turns, emotion, and overall great cinematic direction. Scenes that set out to be something hit the mark and went beyond
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Please for the love of god go into this blind without knowing about it, it enhances the experience 1000%. I believe Gakkou Gurashi (School-Live!) is one of the best anime I have seen in my Weeaboo career. Without spoilers School-Live! is an amazing anime filled with twists and turns, emotion, and overall great cinematic direction. Scenes that set out to be something hit the mark and went beyond that. I would definitely say this is one of the very few anime I have seen to be 1000% times better than it's manga counterpart. Watch Gakkou Gurashi right now, I swear on my subtitles you won't regret it.

First Impressions: The show looked like a slice of life. I'll be frank I don't like Slice of life shows but this one I wouldn't mind watching as the humor seemed refreshing. The show is supposed to be about 4 girls surviving a zombie attack so I would have assumed we would have saw the darkness at the start. But it gave us a fake world or in other words a delusion they build up all the characters
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First Impressions: The show looked like a slice of life. I'll be frank I don't like Slice of life shows but this one I wouldn't mind watching as the humor seemed refreshing. The show is supposed to be about 4 girls surviving a zombie attack so I would have assumed we would have saw the darkness at the start. But it gave us a fake world or in other words a delusion they build up all the characters and personalities by showing us the cute side only to hide something else. The show has depicted the madness that is inside a crazed girl as she tries to cope with reality. Throughout the show you see colors and well created art around the show, but they show subtle hints that something is off. I was going to guess that they were trying to soften the blow but instead they gave us an illusion to hide what was hidden. The 1st episode is a type of episode where you have to re-watch it in order to see the hints.

The show has beautifully created a startup and setup for the stage. She see's a School filled with fun, but really what do you see?

If you didn't see the hints clearly, look at 9:14 and pause it. Read the board on the right hand side.
Another would be Miki-kun forgetting about classes.

Cute slice of life show about 4 quirky girls who form a unique club. The club is the "school life club." They actually LIVE at school entirely to bring themselves closer to academic life, as as a pretext to do cute schoolgirl things in a trouble free environment. They also have an adorable dog that can open doors and loves to get into trouble, and an adviser who seems to always get dragged into
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Cute slice of life show about 4 quirky girls who form a unique club. The club is the "school life club." They actually LIVE at school entirely to bring themselves closer to academic life, as as a pretext to do cute schoolgirl things in a trouble free environment. They also have an adorable dog that can open doors and loves to get into trouble, and an adviser who seems to always get dragged into their hilarious hijinks.

This one is really special. Even if that isn't normally your thing, give the first episode a try and see if it doesn't grow on you!

School-Live is a hauntingly beautiful take on the zombie apocalypse, it's a bit slow at times and somewhat of a genre mixer (slice of life moe anime mixed with an actually creepy & grotesque horror story matched with a sad yet sometimes beautiful character tragedy story). Like most good zombie stories, the focus comes more on survival and the developments of these characters in a nightmarish
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School-Live is a hauntingly beautiful take on the zombie apocalypse, it's a bit slow at times and somewhat of a genre mixer (slice of life moe anime mixed with an actually creepy & grotesque horror story matched with a sad yet sometimes beautiful character tragedy story). Like most good zombie stories, the focus comes more on survival and the developments of these characters in a nightmarish situation grasping to what they have left of humanity. Something this show gets surprisingly right is subtlety, there's a lot of hidden symbolism, show don't tell moments, and the zombies are usually only briefly seen, grotesque when they appear, but obscured both by clever camera use, darkness, and character's 'perceiving' the zombies as something much more personally nightmarish to themselves.

It keeps a slower pace, and not all will appreciate a slice of life story in a zombie apocalypse. The show isn't full of action, but then again neither were some of the great classics of the zombie genre, including the masterpiece that kicked them into popularity, Night of the Living Dead. This is certainly more in line with a zombie tale like that, slow, emotional, full of messages of humanity, society. The scenes of humanity crumbling are done wonderfully as are the shocking scenes of zombies winning and taking over. In contrast, the characters are straight-up anime moe tropes, but pushed out of their element to be developed more as 'human' characters. The story also features a lot of flashbacks, whiplashing between the current time, and the character's backstories for how they ended up in this situation.

The story along its course provides a lot of twists and developments, the characters are developed well and most will find that maybe earlier episode indifference towards certain characters gives way somewhere along the way into likability and caring about the cast, and the show sometimes feels like a rollercoaster ride of emotions, between the happy, the beautiful, the sad, the tragic, the horrific, and the twisted. But it remains grounded by its well-developed cast and certain atmosphere it gives off.

If you're a fan of classic zombie films and their slower, but meaningful, pacing, or of darker slice of life series, and/or these two things coming together, you should check it out. Currently somewhat overlooked. Full of hauntingly beautiful scenes, well-executed grim reminders of the threat outside, twists and turns in the plot, and maybe one of the darkest, yet deepest, slice of life animes to come out in a while. This so far has been demonstrated to be an interesting and well-done take on zombies meet anime, something which has been toyed with but I don't think in any meaningful way... Until now.

So i only watched the first episode and I'm already addicted.Just to say I thought this was going to be about some girls from school going about their lives and then they will graduate leaving the blonde girl to bring in more members but no it's not. i judge it by the art and now I'm just like OH MY BANANA!! this is going to be a good show. if you like high school of the dead but it was too much
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So i only watched the first episode and I'm already addicted.Just to say I thought this was going to be about some girls from school going about their lives and then they will graduate leaving the blonde girl to bring in more members but no it's not. i judge it by the art and now I'm just like OH MY BANANA!! this is going to be a good show. if you like high school of the dead but it was too much for you here is a the sweeter version.

Let me start by saying that there are definitely spoilers to be had with this anime, and I recommend just watching the entire first episode (no matter how bored you get!) without reading the description or any comments.

(Spoilers ahead! Watch out!)

Basically, this anime follows Yuki, our cute-y, happy-go-lucky, pink-haired anime protagonist, who just so happens to be a member of the school
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Let me start by saying that there are definitely spoilers to be had with this anime, and I recommend just watching the entire first episode (no matter how bored you get!) without reading the description or any comments.

(Spoilers ahead! Watch out!)

Basically, this anime follows Yuki, our cute-y, happy-go-lucky, pink-haired anime protagonist, who just so happens to be a member of the school living club! This club basically just... lives at school. It sounds weird, but will make sense later, trust me. Yuki has three other friends in the club, as well as a teacher, Megu-nee, and they're all a fairly close-nit bunch.

Basic stuff, right? Wrong.

The first 15 minutes of the anime are almost impossible to sit through (the overly moe plot made me almost want to barf; 'Yet another Lucky Star", I thought), however if you stay for the end, you'll find the biggest plot twist right around the hypothetical corner! (HUGE SPOILER, PLEASE, PLEASE DON'T READ PAST IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN EPISODE 1) It turns out that the fun high school life that the adorable Yuki loves so much is... not quite as it seems. It's revealed t the end of the episode, along with countless hints throughout it, that the show actually takes place in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. Throughout the entire episode we're shown Yuki hanging out with her school friends, but in reality everything you see from her perspective it a delusion to keep her sane.

Yuki is literally insane, and has imagined a fictional world around her in which all of her school friends are still alive, though they only living people left are those members in the School-Living club. Even then, since a good 2/3 of everything is from her p.o.v., we're all left to wonder who and what is real, and what is all a figment of Yuki's imagination.

This show is now my new favorite anime. I'm really enjoying all the subtle plot hints they give out in each episode, slowly making it more and more obvious until a plot twist is revealed. Some quality writing and animation skills involved here.

There are some differences to the manga, so it keeps you guessing. The character development is very good, and you definitely begin to become attached
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This show is now my new favorite anime. I'm really enjoying all the subtle plot hints they give out in each episode, slowly making it more and more obvious until a plot twist is revealed. Some quality writing and animation skills involved here.

There are some differences to the manga, so it keeps you guessing. The character development is very good, and you definitely begin to become attached to each character, rather than them being card board cut out support characters.

It's the perfect mix of cute, horror, physiological, mystery, and slice of life. I don't even know what to classify this anime as; it's in a class of it's own.

I will not lie that i read the synopsis on this one so I came in knowing that this was a zombie apocalypse anime. I came in not sure what to expect but I like to try each of the new anime through atleast 2 episodes to give them a chance and I thought this was a generic slice of life. At first everything seems happy go lucky and the girls don't seem to be reacting to the way the world around them
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I will not lie that i read the synopsis on this one so I came in knowing that this was a zombie apocalypse anime. I came in not sure what to expect but I like to try each of the new anime through atleast 2 episodes to give them a chance and I thought this was a generic slice of life. At first everything seems happy go lucky and the girls don't seem to be reacting to the way the world around them is supposed to be, honestly who goes to classes during an apocalypse unless they are on how to find food or start a fire, you know basic survival things. Everything builds up until the very end and you realize that you have just seen the world through the eyes of someone who has completely lost touch with reality and is coping with the end of the world as best as she can with her mind in complete delusional mode. It has been a long time since I have seen anything that made me feel so disturbed/sad in a very long time so kudos to the writers.

This is really one of those shows where you gotta go in completely blind. When I recommend it to people I don't even tell them what it's about, and just to watch the first episode and get ready to be punched in the gut. Legit the first anime that's ever made me cry. The storytelling is flawless and captivating, and I basically binged watched this in a weekend, which is something I never do.
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This is really one of those shows where you gotta go in completely blind. When I recommend it to people I don't even tell them what it's about, and just to watch the first episode and get ready to be punched in the gut. Legit the first anime that's ever made me cry. The storytelling is flawless and captivating, and I basically binged watched this in a weekend, which is something I never do. Definitely on my top anime list for sure.

About the Show

SCHOOL-LIVE! Focuses on the lives of 4 girls who decide to stay over at school: Yuki Takeya, Kurumi Ebisuzawa, Yuri Wakasa, and Miki Naoki. Along
SCHOOL-LIVE! Focuses on the lives of 4 girls who decide to stay over at school: Yuki Takeya, Kurumi Ebisuzawa, Yuri Wakasa, and Miki Naoki. Along with the school adviser Megumi Sakura, they suddenly find themselves to be the final survivors of a zombie attack, and continue to live and survive at the school.
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